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Laura Hazard OwenDecember 6, 2019

News outlets are getting (somewhat) better at handling Trump’s false statements, a study shows

Plus: How Facebook’s changed (or not) since 2016, fact-checking outside newsrooms, and misinformation is polio’s best friend.

Hanaa' TameezDecember 3, 2019

Seeking a new international audience, The Washington Post launches its first Spanish-language news podcast

“I think people in the Spanish-speaking world want to know about what’s happening everywhere, in France, in the U.S., with Brexit, and of course what’s happening with Ecuador, the protests happening in Colombia…It’s a kind of global podcast in Spanish.”

“Our national discussions…need to also consider whether we’re using the right business model to build the contemporary internet”

Christine SchmidtDecember 2, 2019

Baltimore Beat is rebuilding its community ties as an alt-weekly after corporate cut-downs

“Baltimore is a majority black city. When we first started out in 2017, I wanted it to have that point of view, to have a newspaper that serves a black population.”

“Today, there’s a fear of viral content”: Jonah Peretti talks about BuzzFeed at 13

“We’re wounded animals and wondering if they’re going to shoot us”: Publishers have, um, cooled on partnerships with platforms

Laura Hazard OwenNovember 22, 2019

Who becomes a Reddit conspiracy theorist? They have these things in common

Plus: “Subtly inducing people to think about the concept of accuracy decreases their sharing of false and misleading news relative to accurate news,” and the scariest deepfakes of all.

Christine SchmidtNovember 21, 2019

Five years in, Scalawag is reframing who gets included in “the South” (and how to build a business off it)

“What does it mean for a diverse group of young Southerners to be producing content that is read by mostly white folks — and white folks that are older than them?”

“Troubling”: High school students (like most people) are not good at evaluating misinformation

Laura Hazard OwenNovember 15, 2019

News portals like Yahoo still bring Democrats and Republicans together for political news, but they’re fading fast

Plus: Hello “lifestyle misinformation,” hundreds of dead newspapers “revived” online to support Indian interests, and all of the fact-checking discussion you could possibly want.

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